Listening in Luganda | Kitson Maxxing Learning, Book 7 (Maxxing Edition)

Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Makerere's AI lab and the data behind African-language and crop AI

The full story of the Makerere AI lab's Luganda radio corpus, speech models, crop-image and text datasets and Luganda text-to-speech, led by Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende with named teams and partners: the language gap, how the corpus was recorded and transcribed, how the models learn, every result with its numbers, what impact has and has not been shown, and a full chapter on limits.

Inside:

• The methods, explained properly
• Every figure sourced and dated
• The honest limits, in full
• Timeline, glossary and key papers annotated

The Maxxing Edition: a 60-page professional non-fiction ebook (PDF, 6x9 paperback style) from Kitson Workshop, with a foreword, a dated timeline, a glossary, key papers annotated, and full sources and notes. Companion to Kitson Maxxing Learning, episode 7, on YouTube. Free sample available: the foreword and chapter one.

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